<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dirk Bruere</b> <<a href="mailto:dirk.bruere@gmail.com">dirk.bruere@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
SIGH. This is pointless. A self-aware software demo should end this<br>fruitless thread.<br><br></blockquote></div><br></span>
Not really.<br>
If awareness is simply information processing then all matter processes information most of the time.<br>
Or does it? See QM etc <br><span class="sg">
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And a last thought before bed...<br>
Consciousness is the quale of information processing.<br>
Well, that's one variable taken care of...<br>
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Dirk<br>